Book

Soviet economic institutions: the social structure of production units

Stanford University PressStanford, CaliforniaPublished In 1952 • Pages: x, 151

By: Vucinich, Alexander.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book, contains an analysis of five primary Soviet production units: the factory, the machine and tractor station, the state farm (sovkhoz), the collective farm (kolkhoz), and the urban producer's cooperative. The author discusses in detail the factory as an example of a state enterprise and the kolkhoz as a cooperative enterprise. Treatment of the other institutions is confined to those features that differ from the factory or kolkhoz. These institutions are discussed not as part of the economic process, but in terms of the social and power relationships involved, i.e., the government and Party control apparatus, and the status of each social stratum involved—the intelligensia, workers, and peasants.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Labor
Cooperative organization
State enterprise
Status, role, and prestige
Classes
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Russians
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Europe
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Eastern Europe
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
Book
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Social Scientist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Trica Skidmore ; 1955
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date given
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1930-1950
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
NotesAdditional notes
by Alexander Vucinich. Introd. by Sergius Yakobson
Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
52008306
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Industries--Soviet Union